A master volume control on Android OS, or at least a master mute toggle, would have prevented this morning's situation where my alarm volume was zero after having to drill down through 2 levels of interface to twiddle 5 separate volume sliders for last night's Eucharist + ashes service, and then hope I untwiddled them all correctly when we left. Evidently I didn't untwiddle the alarm slider. Proton's Lumo blenderized usage notes from two different Shizuku platform apps (ShizuTools and Volume Manager) ... (...more)

The pattern is hard to ignore: do +200mg caf ahead of a treadmill session even in early afternoon (1-2pm), expect to be not-sleepy past bedtime; Cantrip shot* notwithstanding. 100mg is probably ample for the purpose. *A typical U.S. shotglass measures 1.5 oz, i.e. 1x10mg Cantrip payload. Move pork loin or chicken (2) from cellar freezer to garage - also found another tub of pork shoulder drippings - don't forget there's pork shoulder Brekarito batch Extract the "Snowy Cosmo" recipe ... (...more)

Ocean State - didn't have Ultra Brite. Try Dollar General / Dollar Days / Dollar Tree? * * * Adding oat bran cereal (for beta glucan) into my diet did not catch on like I thought it would. Oat bran muffins are a thing, typically based on a blend of oat bran and wheat flour. But then, oat bran flour is also a thing, and wouldn't you get a more melt-in-your-mouth consistency with fine oat bran flour instead of coarse oat bran not-flour? Applesauce and/or mashed/pureed banana as natural sweetener+binde... (...more)

* * * I hate to admit it but Oligarch Alphabet's search result quality is generally far superior to DuckDuckGo. Also, like it or not, LLM distillation/summary is the future of the search engine industry and because they so dominate result relevancy-quality, that same oligarch brand also dominates the LLM distillation/summary field. If you don't like the energy consumption of proliferating LLM data centers, then StartPage.com is good for anonymizing and de-tracking oligarch service usage and doesn't relay ... (...more)

pizza eggs * * * I've been very torn about how many classes to shoehorn into my character for the upcoming DD5E campaign. I love the concept of piling Embolden, Bless and Bardic Inpo on my allies. I also really really wanted a familiar, and part of my brain is also very convinced that a few Warlock levels will make any caster feel less constrained by spell slot economy. So the obvious solution is zerg Warlock to L3 after front-loading Peace Cleric L1 for Embolden and 1 Bard level for Inspo. I ... (...more)